I watched Openheimer in a IMAX movie theater today, it was not bad I liked it, especially the cinemography.
But somehow - probably because I didn’t do enough research before going - I was expecting a lot of nerdy physics science like in the Martian, but it was mostly politics.
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I’ve had it described as such to me and it stuck: the movie is called Oppenheimer not The Manhattan Project.
It’s really funny to me how people who didn’t like Oppenheimer and people who didn’t like Barbie all said the same thing: it wasn’t what I was expecting. Maybe they would have rather watched a movie about an atomic bomb destroying millions of dolls.
Yeah, if one would do a movie on the Manhattan Project they wouldnt omit important figures to that project like the Oppenheimer film did
The aspect of the Manhattan project that’s still relevent and worthy of comment is “Should we (humanity, and more specifically scientist & engineers) created it?”. Then “Having created it, should it have been used?”
Wife and I had a similar experience. We kept thinking “oh, here’s the part where we’re going to talk about all the science and physics!” but then went off on another track. I liked it overall though and have generally been a Nolan fan.
I just saw the movie last night and i kept telling myself I would prefer watching this as a documentary.
I liked the movie for what it was but I did not like the story telling nor cinematography. It felt like it was made for people who were looking at their phones and threw in some effects and loud sounds so it can grab their attention. I felt like I could have left and missed 1/4 of the movie and I wouldnt have missed anything.
The last hour was definitely hit or miss depending on the person. Most of the movie was pretty much what I expected but after the bomb it mostly turns into just courtroom politics. I really think they could’ve shaved a lot of time there.
Nolan picked politics because that seemed to be the more compelling story with the more compelling subject.
If you wanted a movie specifically about making the bomb, it probably would have been better to choose Leslie Groves as the POV character because he would be in the rooms where the logistical hurdles of the program were being solved. However, the movie would have had a fat different tone.
Perfect typo
